Quote of the day: Do not fear rejection. You will meet it several times along the way when following your passion. How you handle rejection will only build character and make you more tenacious and resilient in the pursuit of what you are meant to be doing.”
As a young girl, Lola Akinmade Åkerström had dreams, big dreams that wandered far from the traditional path she was expected to follow as a girl in her native Nigeria. “I wanted to write fiction, to be a geologist, an artist. I wanted to do what I loved instead of what I was expected to do. But mostly I wanted to work for National Geographic because I thought it would be a means to travel the world and document it like the vividly stirring images I was soaking up from the magazine’s pages.”
Her love of geography saw her through a “true grit” boarding school in Lagos, Nigeria, where as a student she experienced food rations by day and stayed up nights studying cities and their hinterlands via candlelight. On finishing school at 15, she moved to the US to stay with extended family. She pushed aside dreams of working…
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Thanks for sharing. Lola most definitely is an inspiration! Lisa st Career 2.0
Most definitely! WILL continue to read your career posts!